ZTE Open Features

Bored of seeing the new news about the release of new Android smartphone everyday? Wish for a refreshment in the smartphone market? So here it has happened! The first Firefox OS smartphone, ‘ZTE Open’ has been released finally. This smartphone was announced in February of this year. If you have been waiting for it eagerly since its announcement, then I believe that the news of its release has brought smile and excitement in you, right?

ZTE Open is lower-end device and does not have anything ‘wow’ in it, except from its OS, the Firefox OS. In fact, the OS is the reason why this smartphone’s release has become headline of tech world. This smartphone is currently available in Spain. Telefonica is the mobile carrier selling it over there.

Pros: Cheap, First FIrefox OS deviceCons: Low resolution screen, No front camera, Does not stand up to the competition

Since this smartphone has released now, so you might be looking forward to buy it, right? Well, do it only after checking its specs.

ZTE Open Features:

In the hardware aspect, the outer look of this smartphone is not so impressive, but not bad as well. The curvy edges make this smartphone attractive. Its dimensions are 114 x 62 x 12.5 mm. This smartphone is aimed at people who are not so concerned about the look and don’t demand very high-end features. Means, it’s aimed at people who are new to smartphones.

In the display part, this smartphone has 3.5-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen that offers 320 x 480 pixels resolution, and has 165 ppi pixel density. The smartphone is quite good in processing speed. Wreath for smooth performance goes to Qualcomm MSM7225A Snapdragon Chipset and 1.0GHz Cortex-A5 processor that are there in this smartphone. The operating system is Firefox OS. We’re not sure if the OS will offer good experience to you or not, as this is first smartphone based on it. But as per Mozilla’s executives, this smartphone is ‘first chapter’ of their project, which they hope to go long. These words clearly speak about the hard work that Mozilla team has put in its OS, and is still doing so. Therefore, Firefox OS will most likely impress all of us.

Unlike most of smartphones getting launched nowadays, the ZTE Open is the smartphone with single camera, which is of 3.15MP with 2048×1536 pixels. Geo-tagging is the feature that is part of this camera. Apart from good quality picture-clicking, the camera is capable of recording videos of decent quality.

In the memory-side, ZTE Open has 512 MB ROM and 256MB RAM. Support of microSD card of up to 32GB is part of its feature-set. The smartphone is powered by Li-Ion 1200mAh battery.

ZTE Open Price & Availability:

Like I said before, the ZTE Open is up for sale in Spain through mobile carrier Telefonica. The price tag is 69 euros (about $90). This smartphone will be hitting several Latin American countries, anytime soon.

ZTE Open is definitely not so impressive, but if you are curious to taste Firefox OS, then buy this smartphone. Since the price is low, so it’s the best smartphone to taste this new mobile OS, right? What do you think about this first Firefox OS device? Do share your thoughts in the comments below.

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Not at all impressed with this one. What folks at Firefox were thinking? This is not going to stand up anywhere, when giants like Samsung are coming with amazing devices. These days people love big screens and powerful devices along with a good OS which comes up with lot of apps.

I know Firefox is just starting out, but they should have done work on building the app store first and then tied up with better smartphone makers. Who knows ZTE? I won’t trust that brand even if they offer that phone at very low prices. It’s still a long way for Firefox if they want to get some share of smartphone market.

Not at all impressed with this one. What folks at Firefox were thinking? This is not going to stand up anywhere, when giants like Samsung are coming with amazing devices. These days people love big screens and powerful devices along with a good OS which comes up with lot of apps.

I know Firefox is just starting out, but they should have done work on building the app store first and then tied up with better smartphone makers. Who knows ZTE? I won’t trust that brand even if they offer that phone at very low prices. It’s still a long way for Firefox if they want to get some share of smartphone market.

Firefox has already mentioned they are going to target those who prefer to buy low end feature rich smartphones. But, Android is already catering these people. There are very low priced Android phones which offer far better experience than this Firefox phone. And this phone does not offer anything, which gives us a reason to buy it. To me, this looks like 4-5 years old phone, these days people don’t like such phones. Let’s see how this performs. Personally, I want Firefox to succeed. because more the competition in the market, the better it gets for consumer.

Firefox has already mentioned they are going to target those who prefer to buy low end feature rich smartphones. But, Android is already catering these people. There are very low priced Android phones which offer far better experience than this Firefox phone. And this phone does not offer anything, which gives us a reason to buy it. To me, this looks like 4-5 years old phone, these days people don’t like such phones. Let’s see how this performs. Personally, I want Firefox to succeed. because more the competition in the market, the better it gets for consumer.